Quick question to all the wonks - can anyone show me an example of a well-executed extension of IATI data the isn’t the United States? Their namespace link isn’t working: http://beta.foreignassistance.gov/assets/Organisations/DOS%20and%20USAID.xml (I’m aware this might change, but am impatient).
(Further question - is there any way of finding these activities with extensions through the datastore, dashboard, OIPA, or D-portal? My suspicion is that there isn’t, but I’d be interested to hear.)
Vincent van 't Westende thanks for flagging this.
Rory Scott you might want to have a look at this page: https://github.com/akvo/akvo-rsr/wiki/IATI-Import-mapping what the use of these in practice look like you can find on e.g. https://rain.akvoapp.org/en/projects/ (The Rain IATI file imports in Akvo RSR that Vincent referred to).
Please let me know if you have any questions on this. Regarding suggestions for enhancing the standard in this respect please see this post: Tech Paper: Codelist Management
Last but not least; why would you get involved with these types of fields? That has everything to do with the storage of data for communication purposes. See this presentation for more context: http://www.slideshare.net/martenschoonman/using-iati-datasets-for-communication-where-can-we-improve